Spoon - They Want My Soul (2014)

Due August 5th!

they have added alex fischel from the divine fits on keyboards.

snippet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hocytKSntfE

interview w/ daniel and eno

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2014/06/05/318445464/after-learning-to-loosen-up-spoon-readies-its-return-the-all-songs-interview

some work with dave fridmann : /

Always excited for new Spoon although the few clips I've heard haven't blown me away.

I wonder why they aren't on Merge anymore.

Somebody made them an offer they couldn't refuse?

YEAH

still probably my favorite band going right now.

Spoon:

06-05 Porto, Portugal - Optimus Primavera Sound
06-07 New York, NY - Governors Ball Music Festival
06-14 Vancouver, British Columbia - CBC Music Festival
06-21 Toronto, Ontario - NXNE Festival
06-22 Minneapolis, MN - Walker Art Center
06-26-28 Las Vegas, NV - Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas
07-12-13 Telluride, CO - The Ride Festival
07-18 Louisville, KY - Forecastle Festival
07-25 Seattle, WA - Capitol Hill Block Party
08-02 Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza
08-08 Los Angeles, CA - The Fairbanks Lawn of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery
08-10 San Francisco, CA - Outside Lands
08-17 Portland, OR - Musicfest NW
08-30-31 Philadelphia, PA - Made in America Festival
09-05 Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Music Festival
09-07 Boston, MA - Boston Calling Music Festival
10-03-05 Austin, TX - Austin City Limits Music Festival
10-10-12 Austin, TX - Austin City Limits Music Festival

can't tell you how excited i am about this. so going to their concert at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. at a cemetery?

can't find "Knock, Knock, Knock" anywhere, guess i will have to wait.

not sure if this is the cover or not:
http://www.undertheradarmag.com/uploads/article_images/Spoon-They-Want-My-Soul.jpg

Oh, awesome. I finally on impulse bought a physical copy of Transference today. It must have been the universe speaking to me of the impending new one.

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No Friddmann.

They were just brilliant in London the other night. Only one new song played, as far as I recall.

buying tickets, so damn happy.

Reminds me I need to check out Girls Can Tell; the one album of theirs I haven't heard yet. The last one was a bit of mixed bag for me, so I'm cautiously optimistic about the new one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NOPfmfRVWmk

guh where did all the SPACE go?

they have added alex fischel from the divine fits on keyboards.

yeah i saw they're a 5-piece now. i was wondering what the deal was with that, but including a member of divine fits makes sense if that's what they're feelin' at the moment.

xps Girls is a personal fav + a big step forward for the band (that opening number is a STATEMENT if I've ever heard one), but it also shows them exploring new styles that would take several more albums to fully cohere (and some, like the dinosaur-rock strut of "Fitted Shirt", that they would abandon completely). I'm curious to hear what you make of it; I get the impression that a few of the tracks I originally found refreshing would seem kinda minor or half-baked compared to more recent efforts.

The new single doesn't really do anything for me. Hope there is better to come on the album.

yeah, sounds like recycled Spoon

initially felt the same way about "The Ghost of You Lingers"

this band is sitting on 6 consecutive records that i've really enjoyed so i'm excited about this as always. the last one was a slow grower so i'm not worried about first impressions really

Girls Can Tell is their best.

Girls Can Tell is their worst.

The first five songs are some of their best, the rest of the songs are some of their worst. They're still alright though.

Girls Can Tell is a great album but I've settled on Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga being my favourite closely followed by Kill The Moonlight. Girls Can Tell would be either third or just behind A Series of Sneaks in fourth. They are an extremely consistent band though. Telephono is the closest they have to a dud but it still has its moments.

^ ditto, except i think Kill the Moonlight is my #1, just because of the sound of it. Ga is a better "rock" album but hews more closely, too, to the sound and feel of trad rock.

i always had a soft spot for "gimme fiction" but i haven't listened to this band since...probably the year transference was released

GF is my favorite.

i've listened to transference all the time since 2009, chances are not good that i'll be as down with the new one, but i'm hoping

ciderpress OTM

love the new song. i was thinking they might go into the more Divine Fits sound but they did not.

http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/news/55517/8a851f3a.jpg
They Want My Soul:

1. Rent I Pay
2. Inside Out
3. Rainy Taxi
4. Do You
5. Knock Knock Knock
6. Outlier
7. They Want My Soul
8. I Just Don't Understand
9. Let Me Be Mine
10. New York Kiss

just finished buying tickets, seeing them at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, which is just bizarre to me.

This arrived in the post this morning.. Halfway through. Very direct, rocky, unmistakeably Spoon.

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Cover is very Kill The Moonlight.

http://spoon.kungfustore.com/they-want-my-soul/deluxe-they-want-my-soul-bundle.html

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This bundle includes:
- An instant download of the album track, ‘Rent I Pay’ upon checkout
- Limited Edition Translucent Blue They Want My Soul Vinyl LP
- They Want My Soul CD
- Lion T-shirt
- They Want My Soul Beach Ball
- Set of 8 Postcards
- Reproductions of They Want My Soul Handwritten Lyric Sheets.

The first 100 bundle orders will receive an autographed set.

think I still love sneaks best; utilitarian, car radio, advance cassette (and agony of laffitte if that counts) are all-time and the rest are swell

oh fantastic a beach ball

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-yAjwnz6aU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF9aY2nsfHE

that is the first time i have heard "Rainy Taxi" and it is classic Spoon. this album is going to be so good, they sound like they still have that spark.

I thought that Ticketfly photo was the (very cool) album cover.

no idea how i'll like the album, but i think those performances were tight as fuck.

well, i guess i expect i'll like it.

there are no pyrotechnics in their music but there are gimmicks, they're just cleverly tucked away - like when Sister Jack, an otherwise strait-laced rock song, sneaks into 9/4 at the end. It's glorious and understated, but you'd never hear Spoon break down into a cod-reggae section or break out the moogs or whatever.

Everything they do is interesting and accomplished, at the very least, and while it may not always be inspired or amazing, that consistency is really impressive. More and more I feel like Kill The Moonlight might be their best single piece of work, but I think their albums are amazingly consistent.

That said, I'm not bowled away by the current record, but I seldom am straight away; they're like the definitive slow-burners, although I can always tell pretty much straight away that I'll like their records. But their aesthetic and approach is so familiar (and ingrained in my head/taste) now that it would be mad not to feel that way.

I feel like I could describe verbally what it is that I like about them so much, but I find it hard in type. If that doesn't sound idiotic.

Spoon is not really boring. The National is the best boring band.

they're the worst boring band

things that are boring but good

this album is a grower.and it's quite good.

still, they did better before.

The National are incredibly boring. Consistent but boring.

I would also like to nominate the last Horrors album as boring but good

every good band that repeat it's sound again and again are boring but good.

I'd say there's a good deal more variety in the Spoon sound then say a band like AC/DC. That's not even taking into account their early Pixies sounding albums.

i didn't say spoon are boring...

(though Britt do tend to repeat the formula of his songwriting)

on repeated listens i'm upgrading this LP from a 'really good' to a 'fucking excellent'

No one talks about Let Me Be Mine.
It's a great song and a reminder of the good old Spoon sound..

i would not call Spoon boring either especially after seeing them live this month. i like the National but the best boring band for me would be Okkervil River.

To me "boring" is the opposite of "compelling." Spoon are predictable and consistent--but they are almost always compelling. I couldn't imagine calling them boring. The National are boring.

ha you people it's called ARTISTRY, or if you wanna throw shade, CRAFTSMANSHIP. is there a songwriter who gets less credit for actually being good at being a songwriter than b daniel

Feel like they're basically today's Stereolab, and just need to get around to recording Dots & Loops to divide their audience a bit.

the actual thing that he doesn't get enough credit for is being an unbelievable vocalist.

truth

transference is especially good for that, fewer places to let the band cover him up

yeah that is the definitive britt daniel vocals album

I really liked Transference.

This one is shaping up to be a real favourite too.

I've been trying to work out what 'Inside Out' reminds me of, and I've worked out it's part 'Huey Newton' by St Vincent and part the Easy Star Allstars' version of Pink Floyd's 'Us & Them'

this thing is hella singable

love the punchiness of the drums on this albums.

Ha, I've see people moaning Hagar they hate the drum sound on this record compared to earlier Spoon because the drums are flat and don't snap. Horses, courses.

Hagar? wtf, iPhone.

Hodor!

They Want My Three Lock Box

Just listened to an interview with these guys on the Nerdist. Jesus was that uncomfortable for Britt. He seems like a pretty quiet guy who just wants to talk about music. Few good tidbits though. "Outlier" was written without at least the music without Britt's involvement and another track on the record (they didn't say which one) had been around since Gimmie Fiction.

my friend told me Knock X 3 sounds like Pink Flyod's Pigs.

and he is right, in a way

melody on the chorus of "Do You" is definitely not something I expected from Spoon. s'good though. that's what we say we want right? good and surprising?

had either Outlier or Do You stuck in my head the last three days. this might turn out to be my fave spoon record, which i never would have expected on first listen

it really is right up there imo

one of the highlights for me on this album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3pLsdBI6QE

ok, i had some summer listens, now for some fall listens

weekend snow listens

'Inside Out' is just dandy, innit?

break out of character for me

Jeez, this album!

Why did I wait so long?!

I faded on this quite quickly but it has come back with a vengeance. Probably their best after Gax5. Rent I pay is so-so, They Want My Soul is slightly annoying (mostly the chorus lyrics that put me off I think, a shame as the verse sounds so warm and inviting), and IJDU is worthless - but the rest is silver to gold. Walking round the house singing the falsetto 'do-do-doos' from Do You is immensely enjoyable. Sometimes I think it's the best track but then New York Kiss comes along.

Yeah, "Do You" is a weapons-grade earworm

I'm doing my top Spoon songs for the imminent Spoon artist poll and was surprised how many off this album made the final 20

i did not know that was going on!!!

Yeah I need to start gearing up for that as well.

i asked this in the poll thread. going to open the Spoon poll tonight and need help with side-poll idea's. so what kind of side-polls should we have for our Spoon poll?

what kind of spoon is Spoon?

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Runcible obv.

Have always been lukewarm on this album and I’m realizing tonight that it might be entirely due to “Outlier” (the “you walked out of Garden State” one). The rest of the album is pretty solid

I really like this one. probably the last one I really gave a fair shake. braking my brain that it’s 8 years old now. spent a lot of time listening to this when I lived in Nashville and walked everywhere